Further Bounty: $250 (usd) for exceeding 622,040 points by December 31, 2006.

Time for a real classic again. And one that I couldn't play to save my life.

The further bounty is for besting the arcade machine record held by Rob Barrett. Settings to be used this week and for the further bounty are: Lives =3, Bonus life= 30,000, Flash Bombs=1 per life, Difficulty ="Hardest".

I'm told marathon settings differ in that you can accumulate Flash bombs, carrying unused ones over to the next life. I can't see how to set that in MAME, but don't do it anyway.

I'm told marathon settings differ in that you can accumulate Flash bombs, carrying unused ones over to the next life. I can't see how to set that in MAME, but don't do it anyway.

I wondered about this for a long time too. The manual doesn't make it clear, but as Art Z. mentioned on the classicarcadegaming.com forums if you set the dip switch for flashes to "1 per game", this is actually the marathon mode. The genie lamp that is displayed just below the player one score indicates that you have the flash available. With the dip switch set to "1 per game", the number of lamps accumulates with one more being added every 20K. I don't know if there is a maximum you can accumulate.

Settings to be used this week and for the further bounty are: Lives =3, Bonus life= 30,000, Flash Bombs=1 per life, Difficulty ="Hardest".

I remember many a good debate back in the day over what to call various items in games which did not have official designations given by the games themselves. The prize items in Pac-Man for example. I guess in retrospect the fruit on the 3rd and 4th board is supposed to be a peach (with the little leaf on the stem), but the people I knew all called them oranges. People that did not recognize the Galaxian ship had all sorts of weird ideas what that thing was supposed to be.

Which brings me to wondering what the players of Tutankham call the various enemies.

Looks like a bird to me. Gamefaqs calls them "pelicans" but that doesn't seem to fit for me.

Obviously a snake. Cobra? Asp?

Gotta be a dragon.

Yeah, I'm stumped here. What the heck is that supposed to be? Gamefaqs say "gorgon".

Looks like a butterfly to me. Presumably some sort of deadly, carnivorous butterfly.